KNIGHTS OF SEIROS
After-Action Report Form
Report Filed by: J.R. Eisner, Captain-Major, Free Company of the Victual Brothers, Consultant
Carbon Copies to:
Card. Seteth – Office 201, Academy Admin Wing
Prof. Byleth Eisner – Dorm Room 101, Residence Halls
Prof. Hanneman von Essar – Office 202, Academy Admin Wing
Prof. Manuela Casagrande – Office 203, Academy Admin Wing
K-Cpt. Alois Rangeld – Knights Hall, Captain's Office
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DISTRIBUTION OF CARBON COPIES OF THIS REPORT TO INDIVIDUALS NOT INCLUDED IN THE ABOVE LIST WILL RESULT IN PROSECUTION ACCORDING TO MONASTERY SECURITY PROTOCOL.
ACTIVITIES IDENTIFIED IN THIS REPORT MAY NOT BE DISCLOSED TO OTHER STUDENTS OR STAFF VERBALLY.
-Seteth, 6.1.1180
30th Harpstring Moon 1180
LOCATIONS:
Garegg Mach Monastery
Remire Village (Map Attached)
S.E. Oghma Watch Station (Appendix 1 Floor-Plan)
0020hrs: MONASTERY FRONT GATE (OFF-MAP)
Recce party departed for combat zone twenty-minutes late while waiting for arrival of heater shields for light cavalry scouts. Messengers sent to Deer & Eagles on parallel paths towards Zanado. Messengers departed before arrival of heater shields. Recce Party Sgt, B.D. Guesclin insisted on waiting for proper supply. Recce Party proceeded toward combat zone ten minutes after heater shield delivery. No losses recorded until CZ-arrival.
1430hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 3)
Recce party spotted by enemy patrols and shot at. Brief parley between longbowmen and mounted scouts, opposition refused to withdraw, followed by engagement of enemies at range with javelins. Later, forced retreat of Recce party in face of reinforcing hostile platoons, but party suffered no casualties.
1450hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 4)
Forward observation post established by Recce Party on hillock named after St. Serios. All clear given to proceed towards Remire by main force, outfitted as dragoons.
1500hrs: MONASTERY FRONT GATE (OFF-MAP)
Brief speech issued to main force, delivered by report writer, regarding necessity to relieve the students and town watchmen trapped inside village. Blockhouses cannot be expected to hold back enemy forces indefinitely. Ride towards combat zone commences.
1650hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 4)
Enemy attacks & drives Recce Party from observation post in force. Further retreat to Oghma pass watchtower (OFF-MAP) initiated. Strength of Recce Party now approximately 12 effectives, all ranks. Nine casualties reported. Wounded and dead left behind.
2310hrs: S.E. OGHMA WATCH-STATION (OFF-MAP)
Main force links up w/ Recce Party. C.O. summons scouts for report on enemy dispositions. Attack on forward observation post described in detail. Enemy numbers and disposition unclear along advance route. Executive decision made to camp around watch-station for the evening.
2340hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 1)
Enemy force attacks Remire fortifications after a failed attempt the evening before. Attack is called off by commander shortly after start of assault – resumes again – and then is called off before troops reach firing range. House Leader D.A. Blaiddyd dispatches observations to Main Force C.O. J.R. Eisner via passenger pigeon shortly after this transpires.
31st Harpstring Moon, 1180
LOCATIONS:
Garegg Mach Monastery
Remire Village (Map Attached)
S.E. Oghma Watch Station (Appendix 1 Floor-Plan)
0800hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE, (NE QUADRANT 2, SE QUADRANT 1)
Third attack on Remire palisade begins. Enemy attempts to cow Lions into surrender by using flaming arrows on Remire village. Only fire-proof structures are blockhouses, which were plastered in fire-retardant veneer – suggestion made by Prof. Eisner in consultation to House Leader D.A. Blaiddyd on 23rd of Harpstring Moon. Townsfolk herded into blockhouses with Lions maintaining guards at door and at firing slits.
0830hrs: S.E. OGHMA WATCH-STATION (OFF-MAP)
Letter informing C.O. J.R. Eisner about attack on village is received. C.O. Eisner begins immediate advance towards village to relieve students and townsfolk upon receiving message.
1020hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS, (NE QUADRANT 3)
Main force encounters three enemy platoons of longbowmen deployed in perimeter around remains of forward observation post. Enemy force is dispatched without casualties.
~1300hrs: ZANADO, THE RED CANYON (OFF-MAP)
Prof. B. Eisner summons House Leader E.V. Hresvelg & House Leader C.V. Riegan regarding dispatched orders. As C.O. of diversionary wing, Prof. B. Eisner opts to inform Card. Seteth of intent to disobey orders and proceed alone to execute gas attacks on enemy force in message composed by Student L.V. Ordelia.
1400hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 1)
Flaming arrow bombardment ends, and non-wounded villagers are escorted out of blockhouses. Wounded townsfolk remain inside the infirmary in the right-side blockhouse. Right wing of enemy force then deploys and begins to advance on the village proper. House Leader D.A. Blaiddyd instructs villagers to withdraw into woods behind town while Lions return to defend blockhouses. Mayor declines to follow this order and arranges the villagers into bucket teams to put out fires around the palisade.
Student F.H. Fraldarius offers to guard the villagers as they put out fires, noting that "some cocksucker with a bow may rile up the Boar… but I'm not phased." Student F.H. Fraldarius subsequently is wounded after rescuing a small child before a burning scaffold collapses on him. In doing this, Student Fraldarius fractures his clavicle.
1450hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 1)
Right wing halts attack again before fully committing to assault of palisade, then wheels its entire force to the East in order to face off against cavalry contingent of Main Body. Recce Sgt B.D. Guesclin unhorsed and subsequently killed in opening volley from hostile longbow fire. C.O. Eisner attempts to draw right wing of enemy force away from village and is successful. Cannot draw left wing away, which prompts it to begin an attack in the stead of the right wing.
1500hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 2)
Left wing of enemy force splits in an effort to cover its exposed flank – indicating knowledge that Prof. Eisner's diversionary force will be approaching from the Northwest. Failure of messengers to return to G.M. Monastery suggest interception of orders sent by runners & owls. Other half of left wing sends sharpshooter teams to shoot arrows through blockhouse firing slits. Right blockhouse catches fire from one of these arrows that makes it through the slits.
1515hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 2)
Enemy left wing draws back again after igniting the right blockhouse. At this point, Prof. H.V. Essar reports that from his observation post in the left blockhouse, he notices a Mercenary Captain wearing a red cloak with a white rose behead a Knight of Fearghus, later identified to be Commandant Jean Enrico Flor, Castellan of Gaspard Castle and former bodyguard of Rufus, Regent of the Kingdom. At this point, command transfers to the Red-Caped Mercenary Captain.
1530hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 2)
Right-side Blocktower suffers a critical structural failure due to internal fire damage. Student Raphael Kirsten, on mission-support from the Golden Deer House, is killed in the collapse while attempting to rescue wounded villagers trapped on the third-level. Eleven non-combatants perish inside the blockhouse. Student F.H. Fradlarius, who refused medical treatment for his broken clavicle, remained unharmed. House Leader D.A. Blaiddyd leads effort to recover any wounded from remains of blockhouse. No survivors are reported.
~1540hrs: MONASTERY WAR-ROOM (HQ, OFF-MAP)
Card. Seteth issues strongly-worded rebuke to Prof. B. Eisner regarding proposed mission changes. Accepts decision to allow Eagles & Deer to retreat to Arundel while informing him of official church position on poison gas attacks per Church of Seiros Human Rights Commission of 916.
~1700hrs: REMIRE (NE QUADRANT 2)
Messenger owl shot and killed while flying over Remire Watchtower by longbowmen. Countermanding orders from Card. Seteth were not received by Prof. B. Eisner as a result.
~1800hrs: ZANADO, THE RED CANYON (OFF-MAP)
Preparations for retreat to Arundel Caravanserai completed by students of the Eagles and Deer. Highway lined with caltrops along with the disassembly of supply wagons to create further obstacles.
Last-minute plan change in which Prof. B. Eisner allows House Leader E.V. Hresvelg to join him on unsanctioned gas attack mission. Retreat of Eagles and Deer commences immediately thereafter. Student F.V. Aegir appointed Deputy House Leader of Black Eagles until return of E.V. Hresvelg. House Leader C.V. Riegan issued overall command of retreating students.
1930hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS, (NE QUADRANT 1)
Enemy right wing is assisted by an assassin with orange hair who single-handedly kills the entirety of 2nd Great Knight Platoon before a charge from C.O. Eisner wounds her, and prompts her sudden disappearance from the battlefield. After this, the remainder of the peasants take up positions along Watchtower Hill, obstructing the Main Force's ability to relieve the Lions in Remire.
After two failed assaults on the hill, C.O. Eisner then withdraws his remaining force to the Arundel highway, blocking the enemy's only available line of retreat and supply.
2000hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 1)
C.O. Eisner sends a passenger pigeon to Card. Seteth asking for permission to offer terms of truce with the enemy force.
2200hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 1)
Reply received from Card. Seteth: "Impossible."
Follow-up from C.O. Eisner: "Then the brats are going to die in there".
2350hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NW QUADRANT 4)
Diversionary team of Prof. B. Eisner and House Leader E.V. Hresvelg arrives at St. Cethleann Hill. Campfire at crest is lit in clear view of left wing of enemy force.
1st Garland Moon, 1180
LOCATIONS:
Remire Village (Map Attached)
Arundel Caravanserai (Appendix 3)
0230hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NW QUADRANT 4)
Left wing completes re-deployment away from Remire village proper, completing mission objective. No further enemy forces remain to waylay the Blue Lion House.
0250hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NW QUADRANT 4)
As enemy left wing marches up St. Cethleann Hill, gas attack begins. Owing to downward slope and Easterly winds from the Adrestian Sea being channeled by Oghma Mountains, initial gas deployment carries lethal fog over 300 yards down the hill, and completely eliminates the left wing of the longbow force. Observing from watch-tower, Prof. H.V. Essar reports at least 140-160 enemy casualties in 5 minutes and 10 seconds.
0400hrs–0800hrs: REMIRE OUTSKIRTS (NE QUADRANT 1)
Following total collapse of left wing, leaderless right wing approaches the Main Force under C.O. Eisner to surrender themselves. 96 men and women of all ranks are captured, indicating that the right wing took approximately 50% casualties from the previous 2 days' engagement. Confirmation of victory sent at 8am sharp. Burial of the dead commences immediately therafter.
1040hrs: ARUNDEL CARAVANSERAI (OFF-MAP)
Black Eagles and Golden Deer students under command of C.V. Riegan arrive at Arundel Caravanserai.
1500hrs: REMIRE VILLAGE (SE QUADRANT 1)
Fresh horses arrive to transport Blue Lions back to Garegg Mach Monatery. Horse intended for Raphael Kirsten stays behind to be used as pack animal for Remire's cleanup effort.
~1700hrs: ARUNDEL CARAVANSERAI (OFF-MAP)
Prof. B. Eisner & House Leader E.V. Hresvelg arrive at Caravanserai. All objectives completed.
RELEVANT FACTS & FIGURES
Approximate Enemy Order of Battle:
Left wing: ~200 effectives, commanded by Jean Enrico Flor, then Unknown Mercenary.
Right wing: ~200 effectives, commanded by Unknown Assassin
Approximate casualties, enemy forces:
Left wing: All effectives killed
Right wing: ~104 effectives killed/wounded/MIA, 96 surrendered.
Order of Battle, Church of Seiros:
Blue Lion House: 10 Effectives (all engaged)
Diversionary Force: 16 Effectives (2 engaged)
Main Force: 252 effectives (all engaged)
Casualties, Church of Seiros:
Blue Lion House: 1 Killed, 1 Wounded
Diversionary Force: 0 Killed or Wounded
Main Force: 43 killed, 88 wounded (19 mortally)
Medal Recommendations:
Student Felix Hugo Fraldarius: Order Saint Macuil, Third Class
Sgt. B.D. de Guesclin – Order of Saint Cichol, First Class (posthumous)
Student Raphael Kirsten – Order of Saint Seiros, First Class (posthumous)
